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Friday, July 2, 2010

MMDA now on Twitter - Metropolitan Manila Development Authority - tweetMMDA

Are you always looking for traffic updates? Now technology comes into the rescue.
It's Twitter!!!

MMDA Twiiter Account
Yes, MMDA is now on Twitter with username as tweetMMDA

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Cebu Pacific

Cebu Pacific Air is a low-cost airline based in Manila in the Philippines. This is the second company after Philippine Airlines. Its main base is at the Manila International Airport Ninoy Aquino with another hub at Mactan-Cebu International Airport.
It is a subsidiary of JG Summit Holdings, controlled by the Chinese-Filipino family Gokongwei. In September 2010, the company became famous for establishing the safety danced. A video taken in flight by a mobile phone shows hostesses with the safety while dancing on a title of Lady Gaga. More than 7 million people have seen this video. Following criticism from union staff, particularly speaking of "machismo" stewards of the same company made ​​a similar demonstration in October.

Jollibee Foods:No.1 Fast Food Chain in the Philippines

Jollibee Foods Corporation is number 1 Fast Food Chain in the Philippines and World in the near future. This year Jollibee Foods will open 100 new stores for pizza chain Greenwich, Jollibee Foods will set up 30 more Jollibee Chain, while Chinese fast food chain Chowking will open 40 restaurants. "For both Greenwich and Chowking, we have been focusing on renovation in the past six months because it helps boost same-store sales," Chowking and Greenwich President Ariel P. Fermin told reporters.
After opening Jollibee branches at different location in US and Asia, Now they will build 60 new stores in China, which accounts for the bulk of the company’s international expansion efforts. "Our foregoing expansion priorities are still in China. We are at the same time looking in India and Indonesia," Jollibee Foods Chairman and Chief Executive Tony Tan Caktiong told reporters after the company’s annual stockholders meeting in Ortigas Center.